Anglecymrāeg: Difference between revisions
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As Old English and Old Welsh merged, the /y/ sound and /ø/ sounds changed to /ɨ/ and /ə/ respectively, thus loosing the round front vowels. The /a/ sound became a merged form of the Old English /ɑ/ and the Welsh /a/, slightly more back than the Welsh, but still farther forward than the Old English. | As Old English and Old Welsh merged, the /y/ sound and /ø/ sounds changed to /ɨ/ and /ə/ respectively, thus loosing the round front vowels. The /a/ sound became a merged form of the Old English /ɑ/ and the Welsh /a/, slightly more back than the Welsh, but still farther forward than the Old English. | ||
All vowels had a short and long variants | All vowels had a short and long variants —― the short being one mora and the long being something approximating 1.67 morae, not quite two ―― except for /ə/, which is only short. | ||
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